The rise & rise of Tess Flintoff

ACS scholarship recipient Tess Flintoff has just completed a successful Under 15 National Championships as captain of the Vic Metro team. Tess made 148 runs at 37 with a highest score of 89 against WA. Opening the bowling she took 4 wickets at 14. At the end of the...

A cricketing paradise

Vanuatu can be a stunning South Pacific base for cricket, says ACS president KEN PIESSE    Mid-morning in Port Vila and the temperature is a hot and steamy 35. Even the locals are perspiring. Vanuatu’s national team coach Shane Deitz speaks staccato style: ‘Enjoy it...

Greg Morrissey, OAM

One of our many interstate members, Greg Morrissey hails from Parkes in country NSW and was recently honoured with an OAM for his services to junior cricket. Greg Morrissey has a head for statistics and general cricket information and can rattle off figures with...

1000 not out… well played

Keith Carr isn’t an ACS member, yet, but we couldn’t let the occasion of his 1000th cricket match go without some recognition. He counts many in the Society as his friends, mostly as a result of his association with Eastern Cricket Association (East...

Evergreen Gibbo set to shine

LIFE begins at 70 for country boy Ian Gibson, who has been chosen to open the batting for the Victorian Over 70s team at next week’s national Over 70s carnival in Adelaide.  Originally from Wangaratta where his brother still runs the family’s wheat farm, ‘Gibbo’ is a...

Robbo laws down the law

ACS Over 60s captain Peter Robertson has called ‘for more professionalism, more composure, more focus, more everything’ approaching next Sunday’s big game against Mornington Peninsula Over 60s at Grayden’s Rd. Despite leading ACS to an emphatic...